The Failed Pacifist

Scientists Offered $10k to Bash Report

The Guardian is reporting that scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by the American Enterprise Institute for articles which dispute the findings of the report on climate change from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report was issued today and reportedly gives a 90% probability that human activity is a significant factor in global warming.

The letters, sent to scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere, attack the UN's panel as "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and ask for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs".

posted by Doran @ 7:57 AM